Hippy Hollow designs an environment for artists to share their performances at a grassroots level. Creating an intimate space conducive to authentic art awareness & appreciation. Fostering relationships between community members involved with the arts and providing a venue for the public to attend and be entertained.

HiNiZi means “let us rise up to work” for a better future.HiNiZi is composed by six experienced musicians aged from 20 to 32 based in Segou  - Mali. Hinizi’s musicians come from a griot family rich of vibrant spirituality and of Bo ethnicity. The Bwa (plural for Bo)  come from the south-west of Mali and Burkina Faso, and are the founders of Djenne, the most ancient city of West Africa.  

Each one of HiNiZi musicians masters at least 8 traditional instruments, and their live show include 20 traditional instruments such as: 

	• Membranophones: The Doum Doum, Dumanu, Djembé-
	• Idiophones: The Balafons “Bo Bala, Bala Mande and Senufo Bala” Bara, 
	the Barani, Kankan, calabash
	• Chordophones: The N’Goni “Djeli N’Goni, Kamale N’Goni and Donzo 
	N’Goni” Kora, the Bolon

HiNiZi plays these local traditional instruments in a modern way, keeping the music connected to the tradition. The music is a fusion of Bo, Malinke, Bamara and Senufo. 

Their enthusiastic live performance will catch the public with a glance, HiNiZi will bring the listener through a cultural journey into the Bo music of their ancestors. 

The connection to the nature is essential, as is the relationship between nature and HiNiZi’s played instruments. All of their instruments are build in harmony with the nature and  its animals. When HiNiZi plays, nature is their partner. They build their instruments with the feeling of attachement to their traditional music, which gives them the joy of living, welfare and love.  While playing, they give back to the nature what the nature has given them. 

With their music, HiNiZi respect the traditional circle based on the Bwa’s ancestral sounds. The music is traditionally developed through 3 phases, an introducing call (Appel), a danse,  breaks that surprise the listener by loosing the tempo and finally a blocking, usually recalling the introducing call, that ends the song. 

Percussionist, composer and educator, Carlos “Go Go” Gomez, has performed and recorded with a list of the biggest recording artists of our time.  Throughout his career he has played along side such luminaries as Tito Puente, Pharaoh Sanders, Eartha Kitt, Arturo Sandoval, Gipsy Kings, Jose Feliciano and Grupo Afro-Cuba de Matanzas, as well as contemporary mega stars Mariah Carey and Sade.  Gomez’s virtuosity is heard in the sheer range of his rhythmic influences and musical styles that he plays.  From Afro-Cuban bata, jazz and rock and roll, to Persian pop, Nigerian high life and New Age electronica; Gomez’s hallmark is diversity and experimentation.  Currently, he juggles a busy schedule of live performances, recording sessions, film scoring, and running his imprint label, Kidlat Records.
Born and raised in the Bronx, to Puerto Rican and Cuban parents, Gomez’s early influences included not only the Cuban standards and tangos played by his parents, but also the sounds of his neighborhood in the 1970s; including funk, rhythm and blues, psychedelic rock, and Nuyorican salsa.  At the age of 16, he became a founding member of the groundbreaking Latin crossover group, Seguida.  Dubbed the “The Sons of Santana” by the Village Voice, the group joined the legendary Fania Records roster and successfully embarked on a heavy recording and touring schedule.  As a City College of New York student of ethnomusicology by day and full-blown professional musician by night, Carlos “Go Go” Gomez ended the decade having fulfilled his childhood dream.
A yeaning to deepen his spiritual studies brought Gomez to the West Coast in the late 1970s.  The next 20 years proved fast paced and full of creative opportunities.  The following highlights the breadth of his musical experiences.  He played jazz with Bobby Hutcherson, John Handy, Rodney Franklin, Babatunde Lea, Jules Broussard and Manhattan Transfer; salsa and Latin jazz with Pete and Coke Escovedo, Sheila E. and Conjunto Cespedes; and world music with O.J. Ekemode, Nigerian All-Stars and the Batucaje Brazilian Dance Troupe, to name but a few.  Gomez toured and recorded with Con Funk Shun for many years.  He served as Laura Branigan’s percussionist and musical director for eight years.  His recordings included albums for Narada Michael Walden, Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart, and most notably, Arturo Sandoval’s Grammy award winning album titled, Danzon/Dance.  Gomez also ventured into different media.  He made numerous television appearances, as well as commercial and film performances.  His A-Go-Go-Gomez Band made a cameo appearance in the 1991 feature motion picture, Fires Within.  Several of the group’s songs were included on the film’s soundtrack.  During these years, Gomez balanced his fast paced life by traveling the world extensively, honing his martial arts skills and immersing himself in the study of traditional African and Eastern religions.
Gomez received advanced certifications in percussion from the prestigious University of Matanzas, Cuba and the Instituto Folklorico National De Cuba.  Intrigued by the connection between spirituality and music, Gomez’s life work is devoted to bridging cultures and seeking commonalities.  He brings this synergistic sensibility to the classroom, where for 30 years he has taught his students the art of drumming as a path to personal, artistic and spiritual development.  In 1979 he established the first Afro-Cuban studies in song, drum and dance at the College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California.  His most recent post was at Queens College of the City University of New York where he taught Afro-Cuban percussion and music.  He has lectured extensively, nationally and internationally, on topic including percussion, Afro-Cuban drumming, and Ifa and Santeria religions.
Gomez’s newest ventures continue his experimentation with new technologies.  After recording a series of dance remixes with Francois K of Wave Music, David Morales of Def Jam records and Jay Denes of Naked Music, Gomez launched his independent label, Kidlat Records.  In 2005 he released a solo album titled, Homenaje Al Asmatico, and has recently released a new solo album, New Paradigm Global Music which features Electronic and Acoustic World Trance Grooves.  He maintains a vigorous schedule of live performances throughout the tri-state area, private teaching, and studio work.


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Marla Leigh is one of the few female professional frame drummers in the world today. She is a frame drum specialist, percussionist and flautist, and an internationally-recognized educator, performer and composer.

Marla is CEO of Frame Drum Academy Online and has created her own line of signature drums with Cooperman Company.

Marla loves composing music and sharing her rhythms with the world. Her  debut album, Rhythms of Tof Miriam, was released in 2020. Her second studio album will be released in 2025, join her email list to stay in rhythm with  the magic (https://marlaleigh.activehosted.com/f/22)

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Connecting People in Rhythm from RI, CT, MA, NH, ME & VT for Community based Drumming & Education

AneboAfro je devítičlenná hudebně-taneční kapela z Bamako, Prahy a Kadaně. Každý z členů hraje na několik nástrojů,čehož kapela využívá k dosažení zvukové pestrosti a nečekaným změnám v aranžích skladeb. Základem rytmiky jsou tradiční západoafrické bubny (djembe, dundun, sangban, kenkeni), které se prolínají v africké polyrytmii a vytváří taneční groove. Nad africkými rytmy zní melodické nástroje (kytara, balafon, klávesy, dechová sekce) a vícehlasý zpěv inspirovaný nejen Afrikou, ale i dalšími styly (reggae, latino, rap, afrobeat). Kapela zpívá v afrických jazycích (Bambara, Susu) a také česky, francouzsky a anglicky. Frontmanem kapely je charismatický zpěvák, showman a tanečník Abdul Traore /Mali/, který do repertoáru přináší též moderní africké vlivy a autorské texty. Vystoupení AneboAfro je nabité živelnou energií i díky výrazné vizuální složce, kterou představují divoké a svůdné africké tance v podání Ayi Řezaninové, Abdula Traore a hostující Petry Joklové. Kapela vystupuje v originálních kostýmech a maskách, aby diváky plně vtáhla do atmosféry africké oslavy. Jádrem kapely jsou zakládající členové Jirka Vass (kytara, djembe, zpěv), Honza Franc (balafon, klávesy, trojbas) a Ruda Janout (cajon, dvojbas, djembe). S kapelou pravidelně vystupuje i talentovaná zpěvačka Asheema (Rising Spirits) a bubeník Bob a.k.a. Gypsyfromthefuture (Rising Spirits, ex-Prago Union). Dechovou sekci tvoří Michal „Rambo“ Rambousek (trombón, zpěv) a Petr Baranijak (trubka, zpěv). Kapela odehrála přes 150 vystoupení v ČR a na Slovensku (např. United Islands, Cultural Reggae Vibez, Djembe Marathon, Barevná Planeta, ZOO Dvůr Králové, Galerie Mánes).

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